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hanging out at local jazz clubs with the Neville Brothers and knocking on the
door of trumpeter Kermit Ruffins for help with a song he couldn't quite get.
But that was before Hurricane Katrina, when finding a musical mentor was
easy. Some 20 months after Katrina flooded 80 percent of New Orleans, musicians
young and old are struggling to ensure the jazz beats and rhythms born on the
streets of New Orleans continue.
New Orleans' population is about half its pre-Katrina level, and the black
community the wellspring of improvisational jazz remains scattered around
the country.
"It's a tough situation right now," said Andrews, among the crop of young
musicians set to play at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, which
opens Friday. (It runs on consecutive weekends, including May 4-6.)
Young people are lucky if they can track down a musician to help these days,
he said. Many musicians are still living elsewhere, traveling farther for work,
or working second jobs to make ends meet.
Since Katrina, formal music programs have become one of the best ways to
unite musicians with youngsters wanting to learn, said the 21-year-old Andrews,
himself a former student and teacher through a program offered by the
Tipitina's Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing the
city's public schools with instruments and helping artists recover from the
hurricane.
While that program is geared for older students, another started by black
social clubs allows children as young as 3 years old to perform with bands on
Saturday mornings at the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park in the
French Quarter.
"It's not just about teaching music but teaching etiquette, and where the
music comes from," said Bruce Barnes, a park ranger, vocalist and musician who
plays the accordion, harmonica and African drums.
For the past three months, Barnes had lined up the Treme Brass Band to work
with the children. Last weekend, they performed with the Storyville Stompers
Brass Band.
Eric "EJ" Calhoun, an 11-year-old drummer who attends Harry S. Truman Middle
School in Marrero, La., beat the drums and tooted a red whistle to such songs
as "When the Saints Go Marching In" and "A Closer Walk With Thee."
Calhoun will be among the young musicians performing in the children's tent
at Jazz Fest on Sunday. Andrews will perform at one of the main stages on
opening day, while the Storyville Stompers will play during the festival's
second weekend.
Calhoun said he looks for any opportunity to perform with seasoned musicians.
"They show me a lot of things," he said. "They'll tell me to keep the tempo
down, or about being ready, keeping the beat. It's pretty fun."
One of the programs in place before Katrina struck has been headed for six
years by saxophonist Donald Harrison, a Jazz Fest regular.
On a recent Monday, a dozen or so students met Harrison in a
warehouse-turned-recording and rehearsal studio called the Music Shed, where
the group performed "The Girl from Ipanema" but with a New Orleans spin.
As the students played their trumpets, drums, guitars and piano, Harrison
would at times stop to show them how to hold the instrument differently or play
it differently.
Mostly, he directed.
"Make me feel it," he told them, stomping his feet, clapping his hands.
Harrison, who performs the second weekend of Jazz Fest on May 5, said he
believed in mentoring young musicians long before Katrina struck. "New
Orleans music, it's an oral and audible tradition. You have to hear it. That's
the way music has always been told," he said. "I pass on a musician's
perspective rather than just a classroom perspective." Andrews says he's one
of the fortunate ones. Years before his performances with the likes of: Lenny
Kravitz, U2 and Green Day, he honed his musical skills in a pre-Katrina New
Orleans, where musical mentors filled the city's neighborhoods. Ultimately,
Andrews says, it's going to be up to the musicians to keep the musical culture
alive as New Orleans recovers. "We have to step up," he said. ___ On the
Net: http://www.nojazzfest.com
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